• The Christy Karpinski Mixtape – LENSCRATCH

      Looooong ago, when I was early in my photography career, I discovered F-Stop Magazine (celebrating their 20th Anniversary this year!). I was always so excited to get a photograph in one of their exhibitions and feel part of a community. When I started Lenscratch, Christy Karpinski was one of the few women in a landscape

      via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/12/the-christy-karpinski-mixtape/

      One thing that I think generally is helpful with project based photography is to spend a good amount of time with your project before you share it as finished. With digital it can be so inexpensive, quick and easy to get images out into the world, and this is such a great thing! But I think it also tends to mean people don’t spend as much time with their work or never see it off the screen as a print before completing it


      Christy Karpinski
      in Photography
      December 2, 2023

    • Living in the Transition – Photographs by Shunta Kimura | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture

      Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change

      via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/shunta-kimura-living-in-the-transition

      Traveling through Gabura Union in Bangladesh, Shunta Kimura documents impact, adaptation, and resilience in his quiet photographs of everyday life on the frontlines of rapid climate change.


      Shunta Kimura
      in Portfolios & Galleries
      December 2, 2023

    • An-My Lê on Vietnam, the Chaos of War, and the Tangibility of Memory

      An-My Lê speaks with Hilton Als about about how she uses photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power.

      via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/an-my-le-on-vietnam-the-chaos-of-war-and-the-tangibility-of-memory/

      For the past two decades, An-My Lê has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of US military power, probing the tension between experience and storytelling.


      An-My Lê
      in Portfolios & Galleries
      December 1, 2023

    • Remembering the Energy and Emotion of Larry Fink’s Photography

      Fink, who died in 2023, moved easily between society galas and Pennsylvania farms—and his work was always full of the push and pull of life.

      via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/remembering-the-energy-emotion-and-sensuality-of-larry-finks-photography/

      Fink, who died in November, moved easily between society galas and Pennsylvania farms—and his work was always full of the push and pull of life.


      Larry Fink
      in Obituaries
      December 1, 2023

    • Jaw-Dropping Climber Portrait Wins Red Bull Illume Image Quest 2023

      Incredible action sports photos showcase the world’s most adventurous athletes.

      via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/30/jaw-dropping-climber-portrait-wins-red-bull-illume-image-quest-2023/

      A woman won the grand prize for the first time in the 17-year history of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest contest, the world’s largest action sports photo competition. Australian photographer Krystle Wright wowed the more than 50 contest judges with an incredible photo of climber Angela VanWiemeersch scaling a cliff in Long Canyon, Utah.


      Krystle Wright
      in Contests
      December 1, 2023

    • Elliott Erwitt, Whose Photos Are Famous, and Often Funny, Dies at 95

      His camera could freeze moments in history, but he also had an eye for the humor and absurdity of everyday life. Dogs were a help there.

      Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/elliott-erwitt-whose-photos-are-famous-and-often-funny-dies-at-95.html

      His camera could freeze moments in history, but he also had an eye for the humor and absurdity of everyday life. Dogs were a help there.


      Elliott Erwitt
      in Obituaries
      December 1, 2023

    • Widely Acclaimed Photographer Elliott Erwitt Has Passed Away at Age 95

      He was 95.

      via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/30/widely-acclaimed-photographer-elliot-erwitt-has-passed-away-at-age-95/

      “You may not even know that you have a good picture unless you take a look. Taking pictures is a response to what you see and what you think you see. And it’s very easy not to respond to the quality of the image you shot until you see it in a different circumstance.”


      Elliott Erwitt
      in Obituaries
      December 1, 2023

    • The Dead Children We Must See

      It’s time for Americans to rethink their squeamishness about releasing the photos of the youngest victims of mass violence.

      via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-dead-children-we-must-see

      In a series of three essays published in 1991, the philosopher Jean Baudrillard argued that the Gulf War, which ended up with more than a hundred thousand dead Iraqis, had not really taken place. In his inimitable fashion, his argument was filled with internal contradictions, annoying trolling (Baudrillard had initially written that the Gulf War would never actually happen, which, of course, it did), and some pockets of real clarity. His ultimate argument was that what had taken place wasn’t so much a war but a one-sided aerial slaughter that was scrubbed clean through intensive media control. What people in the West saw were so-called live feeds of missiles and aerial assaults fuelled by new forms of technology, whether the Patriot missile or the stealth bomber. The war was communicated to us almost like an advertisement for a new car—here are all the new features, and here are the salesmen in the form of generals or foreign-policy experts paraded on cable news. We did not see slain enemy combatants, destroyed civilian homes.


      in Ethics, War
      November 28, 2023

    • Xuan-Hui Ng In Conversation with Huibo Hou – LENSCRATCH

      Huibo Hou is a landscape photographer based in San Diego, California. She fell in love with photography about 25 years ago as a hobbyist while working in the wireless communication industry. Then life got in the way and she had to set aside her pursuit of photography for some time. In early 2015, her love

      via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/11/xuan-hui-ng-in-conversation-with-huibo-hou/

      A sense of wonder, mystery, solitude, calm, quietness are among the emotions that I feel in connection with nature and want my images to convey.


      Xuan-Hui Ng
      in Portfolios & Galleries
      November 28, 2023

    • Influential and Compassionate Photographer Larry Fink Has Died

      The photographer is remembered as a free spirit, honest artist, and great man.

      via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/27/influential-and-compassionate-photographer-larry-fink-has-died/

      Fink was celebrated for his distinct photographic style, which showed his subjects somewhat isolated from their surroundings thanks to his use of a handheld off-camera flash, and his authentic depictions of his diverse, wide-ranging subjects.


      Larry Fink
      in Obituaries
      November 28, 2023

    • Adobe Stock Changes Policy on AI Images Depciting Real Events

      Adobe says it has listened to concerned community members.

      via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/27/adobe-stock-changes-policy-on-ai-images-depciting-real-events/

      The rise of AI imagery is of real concern to public discourse: The actress Rosie O’Donnell shared this AI image from TikTok of a Palestinian mother dragging her children and belongings down a rubble-strewn road. She believed it was real stating that it was not an AI image — but she later deleted the post.


      in Ethics, Software & Technology
      November 27, 2023

    • TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2023

      These are the photographs that capture the year

      via TIME: https://time.com/6337364/top-100-photos-2023/

      Below is the 2023 Greatest Hits version of “Did you see this photo??”: an unranked collection of 100 of the images that moved us the most. We hope that you’ll take some time to reflect on the year that was, with thoughtfulness, clarity, and wonder.


      in Portfolios & Galleries
      November 25, 2023

    • The drama around a photog’s firing

      via POLITICO: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2023/11/17/the-drama-around-a-photogs-firing-00127843

      Ernst, the pool photographer on duty that day, pushed back. He had already set up his equipment. And while he could have operated it remotely, as he saw it, there were enormous risks involved with leaving. The Oval Office was packed with staff, reporters and teleprompter and TV equipment. If his camera were to get knocked over or bumped off angle, the entire press corps would be left without a still shot.


      Jonathan Ernst
      in Photojournalism
      November 23, 2023

    • World Press Photo contest reverses decision to allow AI-generated images after backlash

      An open letter was signed by over 100 photojournalists and photo editors. Read more at straitstimes.com.

      via The Straits Times: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/world-press-photo-contest-reverses-decision-to-allow-ai-generated-images-after-backlash

      The WPP’s Open Format category had allowed submissions of images partially created with a photo-editing tool known as generative fill, which automatically creates or removes elements in a photograph, sometimes through a text prompt.


      in Contests, Ethics
      November 22, 2023

    • Sony’s In-Camera Authentication Technology Passes AP’s Tests

      Sony prepares its shield against AI-generated fake photos.

      via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/21/sonys-in-camera-authentication-technology-passes-aps-tests/

      Sony’s new in-camera solution creates a digital signature at the time of capture, and unlike Leica’s M11-P, Sony’s answer to the “fake news” problem does not require specialized hardware inside its cameras. Existing cameras, like the Sony a1 and a7S III will support in-camera signature and C2PA authentication alongside the upcoming Sony a9 III, which is slated to be a compelling new camera for many photojournalists.


      in Ethics, Software & Technology
      November 22, 2023

    • Nat Geo Photo Director’s Thoughts on the 2023 ‘Pictures of the Year’

      Check out some of National Geographic’s best pictures of 2023.

      via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/16/nat-geo-photo-directors-thoughts-on-the-2023-pictures-of-the-year/

      “We’ve been pioneers in custom builds to help our photographers overcome all challenges and get the images they need. We’ve made history with our photo firsts — our first flash photograph, which was made by the ‘father of wildlife photography‘ George Shiras, was published in 1906. We published the first underwater color photographs, which were made by Dr. William Longley and staff photographer Charles Martin, in 1927. Fast forward to 2019 when photographer/filmmaker Renan Ozturk took the highest drone shot ever made — a 360 of Everest.”


      in Photography
      November 20, 2023

    • Harsh Visuals of War Leave Newsrooms Facing Tough Choices

      Digital disinformation and restrictions on photojournalists have complicated decision-making about the visual chronicle of the Israel-Hamas war.

      Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/14/business/media/israel-hamas-media-photography.html

      Gruesome photographs of Palestinian children killed in rocket strikes and Israeli infants murdered by terrorists. Digitally doctored images that whip around social media before they can be verified. Accusations — since rejected by multiple news outlets — that photojournalists had advance knowledge of the Hamas surprise attack on Oct. 7.


      in Ethics
      November 20, 2023

    • Opinion: I’m a former war photographer. The world looks more familiar than it should, and more horrifying

      In the 1980s and 1990s, I chronicled conflicts from El Salvador to Africa to the former Yugoslavia. Those images should remind us to work harder for peace and honour those who did not live to see it

      via The Globe and Mail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-im-a-former-war-photographer-the-world-looks-more-familiar-than-it/

      I spent a decade as a war photographer, capturing conflicts from El Salvador to Africa to the former Yugoslavia. Far too many of those images could have been taken today


      Corinne Dufka
      in War
      November 19, 2023

    • Yesterday You Said Tomorrow – Photographs by Dave Coyle | Text by Magali Duzant | LensCulture

      In the quiet, lonely hours of dawn, Dave Coyle faces his personal struggle while plotting a path towards the future in atmospheric meditations on the landscape of the Pacific Northwest

      via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/dave-coyle-yesterday-you-said-tomorrow

      In the quiet, lonely hours of dawn, Dave Coyle faces his personal struggle while plotting a path towards the future in atmospheric meditations on the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.


      Dave Coyle
      in Portfolios & Galleries
      November 18, 2023

    • Black Women Photographers : Community At The Core – LENSCRATCH

      Established in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, Black Women Photographers (BWP) is a global community, directory, and hub of over 2,000 Black women and non-binary identifying photographers, spanning over 60 countries and 35 U.S. states. BWP was launched with a $14,500 COVID-19 relief fund to help Black Women Photographers who were in dire need of

      via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2023/11/black-women-photographers-leading-the-way/

      Established in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, Black Women Photographers (BWP) is a global community, directory, and hub of over 2,000 Black women and non-binary identifying photographers, spanning over 60 countries and 35 U.S. states. BWP was launched with a $14,500 COVID-19 relief fund to help Black Women Photographers who were in dire need of financial relief due to the pandemic. To date, BWP has provided over $115,000 in financial grants to Black creatives. Today we talk to the team at BWP to learn more about their goals, their hopes for the future, and how they are changing the photo industry still largely dominated by white men.


      in Photography
      November 17, 2023

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